A zine is a little magazine somebody made because they wanted to. It needs no printer, no design software and no permission. It needs one sheet of paper.
The one-sheet zine
Take a sheet of A4. Fold it in half three times, so you have eight small panels, then open it out. Fold it in half the long way, and cut along the middle fold from the folded edge to the centre, no further.
Open it again, fold it the long way, and push the ends together: the cut opens into a cross and the pages fold round into a little book of eight pages. It takes a minute once you have done it twice.
What goes inside
Anything you care about. Our library has zines about bus routes, grandmothers, skateboarding and soup. Pick one subject and give it eight pages: a cover, six pages of insides and a back.
Cut pictures from magazines, write round them in pen, and do not tidy it up. The mess is the point.
Making copies
The library has a photocopier. Ten copies of a one-sheet zine cost a pound. Leave one on our shelf and we will sell the rest on the counter for you.
